Sentences with phrase «of body cameras»

The use of body cameras in schools has been welcomed by some, but it has also sparked privacy concerns from some districts and civil rights groups.

A panel of state lawmakers is examining the benefits and concerns associated with the use of body cameras on police officers.

Many Canadian cities are debating the use of body cameras by police and the privacy impacts involved.

Similarly, the recent pilot of body camera technology on teachers in schools is a bold, if controversial, attempt to reinforce classroom safety.

Kessner is in favor of body cameras for police, but the Syracuse Police Department lost a federal grant to pay for them last year.

As he stated today, the NYPD is launching this week a $ 50,000 pilot program of body cameras in six police precincts, a plan Mr. de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton hope will bring more accountability to the department, ease tension between police and communities, and resolve disputed situations between civilians and officers.

Edwards» killing has prompted calls for the release of body camera footage depicting the incident.

NYC's largest police union is suing Mayor Bill de Blasio to block the NYPD's release of body camera footage — claiming its disclosure poses civil rights concerns for cops and civilians.

An initiative to outfit the Westchester County Police Department with hundreds of body cameras will likely be approved at an approaching Board of Legislators meeting.

After a grand jury chose not to indict a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner last year, Democratic leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins called for the placement of body cameras on police officers and introduced legislation that would require the use of a special prosecutor in cases involving police officers who kill unarmed legislation.

The amount of body cameras applied for this year is far less than the 222 body cameras the police department applied for the previous year.

Instead, she stuck to her even - keeled advocacy of body cameras.

On August 24 at City Hall, Councilmembers Mark Levine and Carlos Menchaca sponsored a resolution calling for implementation of a body camera program.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill admitted he wasn't initially enamored with the idea of the body cameras, but said he grew to understand their value for reducing tensions during community interactions with police.

Officers will test run two types of body cameras: the Taser AXON Flex, which can attach to glasses, and the Vievu LE3, which clips to the chest.

Sgt. Tom Connellan, a former spokesman, said Syracuse police are in the initial phase of researching the costs and benefits of body cameras.

And I'm simply saying that when it comes to issues of federal impact, as the mayor of this city, that I have not seen any zealous advocacy done on the issues of infrastructure, on the issues of lead remediation, on the issues of body cameras for police officers and our violence intervention programs.»

«This is going to be a very important step forward for our police department, and our city,» de Blasio said of the body cameras.

That's what this country is about,» Fulop, a potential 2017 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, added, noting that Jersey City, Newark and Paterson are going out to bid together to ensure that all three municipal police forces will have the use of body cameras available in 2015.

Queens Councilman Donovan Richards, chairman of the Council's Committee on Public Safety, said the combination of body cameras, the Cure Violence program spearheaded by local leaders, and the neighborhood policing program will help reduce crime in the city.

37.7 per cent of more than 600 teachers surveyed have expressed that they are in favour of body cameras in the classroom and around two - thirds of those polled believed they would feel safer in their working environment.

I've heard it in every news story about Ferguson and the killing of Mike Brown, either in the form of body cameras for cops, in reference to the evidence or the grand jury process, or in other ways.

The first thing our personal injury lawyers in White Plains will do after consulting with you about your case will be to obtain copies of relevant police reports related to your arrest, and to obtain copies of any body camera or police car videos of the arrest.

In a humanities course, students read and analyzed Ta - Nehesi Coates» Between the World and Me, and then engaged in individual and group projects to take action of students» choice, such as writing letters to police departments encouraging the use of body cameras by officers.

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday began testing the use of body cameras by its employees at nine locations, potentially leading to a broad rollout by the nation's largest law enforcement agency that would make it the first federal agency to use the devices on a large scale.

They point to her championing, in the wake of a Staten Island man's death in NYPD custody, the use of body cameras on police so all interactions with civilians can be recorded.

While the use of body cameras in classrooms is a new idea, CCTV systems have already been seen in schools across the country in the following guises:

Democrats in the Senate back the use of body cameras for police, as well as the creation of an Office of Special Investigation to oversee grand jury cases involving law enforcement.

Councilor Steven Thompson maintained that complaints against the police will decrease with the use of body cameras.

The NYPD is asking members of the public and its own officers to weigh in as it crafts its final regulations for the use of body cameras, which will be in circulation this fall.

Mr. de Blasio accused the comptroller of exceeding his authority in seeking to block the contract and of trying to «weigh in on the larger policy matters» related to the use of body cameras.

County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz said Tuesday he supports the use of body cameras, but offered no commitment on funding their use.